Book "The History of the Panzerjäger: Volume 2: From Stalingrad to Berlin 1943-45" - Thomas Anderson

A history of German tank destroyers in the period from the Wehrmacht's rapid advance on the Eastern Front to the fall of the Third Reich in 1945.

From 1939 until the final months of 1943, the German army was victorious on the battlefields of Europe, as the armies resisting it had no answer to its innovative tactic of close interaction between armored weapons, artillery and aviation. A very important role in this new military doctrine was played by "Panzerjäger" - units equipped with both towed cannons and mobile self-propelled anti-tank guns.

Soon after the German armies crossed the Soviet border in 1941 and encountered the menacing enemy tanks, which were very modern for the time - the medium T-34 and heavy KW-1 - they had to resort to improvisation in dealing with them, because the Wehrmacht's then-standard anti-tank weapons proved ineffective against these combat vehicles. This gave impetus to the rapid development of a new anti-tank cannon, the 7.5 cm PaK 40, and a number of self-propelled guns armed with it.

This book is the second volume of the history of the "Panzerjäger." In it, the author describes the evolution of the role of these units from the moment they struck the Soviet Union in 1941, through the period of struggles against the British in the North African desert, to the increasingly desperate battles on the Eastern Front against the gigantic Red Army, gradually pushing German forces towards Berlin. It details the types of armaments of "Panzerjäger" units, such as the Hornisse/Nashorn self-propelled cannon, introduced with the task of holding back the might of Soviet armored forces, and the methods of their use on the battlefields in struggles against a vastly outnumbered enemy. The text is enriched by previously unpublished photos from the war years and original historical documents - reports and battle reports.

The book is written in Polish.

Technical data
Author: Thomas Anderson
Number of pages: 288
Binding: soft
Format: 165 x 240 mm
Year of publication: 2023
Publisher: RM Publishing House